Opinion | Rest of South Africa must follow Cape Town’s energy lead, by Matthew Cruise
announced last month that it would begin paying businesses and residents for feeding surplus power into the grid, it offered a glimpse into the future of power provision in South Africa.
According to the provisions of the offer, achieved thanks to an exemption from national treasury, users feeding back into the grid will be paid R1.04/kWh for the current financial year. This amount includes the 79c/kWh recommended by energy regulator Nersa and a 25c/kWh incentive tariff added by the City of Cape Town for this pilot.
The new provisions have the potential to be a game-changer for reliable electricity supply in Cape Town. With business owners able to earn from supplying power to the grid from June and homeowners before the end of the year, rooftop solar power especially becomes viable for a much greater body of people.
The policy adopted by the City of Cape Town is in line with those successfully implemented by a number of countries and regions around the world. California, Germany, Vietnam and south Australia have all paid business and domestic rooftop solar users to feed back into the grid and have shored up their energy reserves as result.
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